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Page 195
The truth is , that with laws and without collocations or dispositions , we should still have but a heaving , turbid , disorderly chaos whereas it is by the collocations as adapted to the laws that the only decisive indications of ...
The truth is , that with laws and without collocations or dispositions , we should still have but a heaving , turbid , disorderly chaos whereas it is by the collocations as adapted to the laws that the only decisive indications of ...
Page 198
But the decisive indication lies in the placing of those various muscles wherewith the organ is so curiously set - by some of which the pupil might be rounded or flattened , and by others of which the retina might be either placed ...
But the decisive indication lies in the placing of those various muscles wherewith the organ is so curiously set - by some of which the pupil might be rounded or flattened , and by others of which the retina might be either placed ...
Page 288
An apparatus of suffering and torture might furnish as clear an indication of design , though a design of cruelty , as does an apparatus for the ministration of enjoyment furnish the indication also of design , but a design ...
An apparatus of suffering and torture might furnish as clear an indication of design , though a design of cruelty , as does an apparatus for the ministration of enjoyment furnish the indication also of design , but a design ...
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Contents
PRELIMINARY VIEWS | 17 |
Of the Metaphysics which have been resorted | 99 |
on the side of Theism | 121 |
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